That line has absolutely made the show for me. I loved it before that point, but when he looked her in the eye and said that. Holy shiat. Perfection. Everything about his character just clicked for me in that moment.

Kimothy:Englebert Slaptyback: tidbits that you can drop into a chat room to sound as smart as everyone else

If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.

That line has absolutely made the show for me. I loved it before that point, but when he looked her in the eye and said that. Holy shiat. Perfection. Everything about his character just clicked for me in that moment.

Mr. Parker:tlchwi02: Mr. Parker: How about just watch the show and not try and 1 up everyone else that does.

even if it doesn't explain anything, the ride has been amazing

100% amazing I agree, and to think I questioned where the show was headed after 2 episodes.

I seem to be having the opposite experience. I enjoyed the ride in the beginning, but now I'm concerned that the ending might be a let down. The way I see it, it can end the following ways:

1. Religious conservatives are revealed to be behind the killings. (Lame.)2. Cohle is revealed to be behind the killings. (No. Just no.)3. They break the fourth wall, or at least come close to it, and reveal that the writers/audience are behind the killings. (Kinda neat, but also kinda ruins any suspension of disbelief for future seasons. Or maybe the talk of future seasons of this "anthology series" was just to throw us off. Either way, it's still kinda lame that the internet cracked the case after, what, episode #3?)4. Sheer, unexpected awesomeness. (Definitely the way to go. I hope Nic Pizzolatto is reading this.)

Blues_X:Pocket Ninja: It is somewhat amazing how so many of the fans of this show have always been such well-informed experts on Robert Chambers. I had no idea.

I downloaded that book, and it really doesn't clarify anything on the show.

No it doesn't. I tried forcing the idea "well the first two stories have these dynamics with two men and one woman so maybe there are some tie ins between Rust/Marty/Maggie or Audrey and those two boys" but it just felt like trying to put a square peg in a round hole so I let it go. It's not worth trying to force interpretations when it's so entertaining in its own right.

Was anyone else confused when Marty walked into the T-Mobile store? I wasn't sure which time he was in. T-Mobile USA didn't come into existence until July 2002, and the coverage maps on the walls were from the current day.

I generally let small production errors slide but that one slapped me right in the face. Of course, having been in a T-Mobile store for 30 minutes just the day before probably made me more sensitive to the issue.

On the last episode, you'll notice that when Marty is driving out across the bayou, the water is on his left-hand side. At the very end, when you get the weird camera angle on Rust's truck as he drives onto the road, which side is the camera on? That's right, the left. Think about it.

Also, they're going to drink beer at the end of the show. Some people drink beer out of mugs. Do you see?

From wiki on the King in Yellow: "Lovecraft borrowed Chambers' method of only vaguely referring to supernatural events, entities, and places, thereby allowing his readers to imagine the horror for themselves."

FarkingReading:From wiki on the King in Yellow: "Lovecraft borrowed Chambers' method of only vaguely referring to supernatural events, entities, and places, thereby allowing his readers to imagine the horror for themselves."

Crewmannumber6:FarkingReading: From wiki on the King in Yellow: "Lovecraft borrowed Chambers' method of only vaguely referring to supernatural events, entities, and places, thereby allowing his readers to imagine the horror for themselves."

Nic Pizzolatto seems to have borrowed that method, too.

Just a thought.

He's actually been pretty upfront about that

Yeah, and in keeping with that, I think there's a chance that the ending might not be so concrete and final, maybe vague with loose ends left.

Kimothy:Englebert Slaptyback: tidbits that you can drop into a chat room to sound as smart as everyone else

If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.

That line has absolutely made the show for me. I loved it before that point, but when he looked her in the eye and said that. Holy shiat. Perfection. Everything about his character just clicked for me in that moment.

Just when I'm convinced that 2012 long-haired Rust is the creepiest Rust, 1995 Rust goes and says something like that. Dayum.

All I know is that the first episode (the only one I've seen) hovered between "mildly interesting" and "mind-numbingly slow and dull", and I'm hesitant to keep watching. After binge-watching this season of House of Cards (which was excellent), True Detective is not holding my interest based on episode one.

Nix Nightbird:All I know is that the first episode (the only one I've seen) hovered between "mildly interesting" and "mind-numbingly slow and dull", and I'm hesitant to keep watching. After binge-watching this season of House of Cards (which was excellent), True Detective is not holding my interest based on episode one.